Guardian journalist Zoe Williams is worried. "Is the left in Britain still alive and well?" she asks. Apparently, "no one quite knows where it has gone, or what it ...
As May 7th bulks ever bigger on the political horizon, the UKIP omnibus has developed serious rattles. As the campaign pounds punishingly on, the insurgents" inexperience is ...
When Mohammed Emwazi went out from west London to Syria literally to carve out a new career as "Jihadi John", masked avenger of non-wrongs, England lost an "extremely ...
One of the reasons I read the liberal newspapers when I am in Britain"apart from the fact that they are the best"is that they irritate me so by their smug ...
The latest British parliamentary spat was a further ripple from the scandal about MPs" expenses that first splashed into our headlines in 2009. In December 2012, it was ...
Last week saw the passing of two prominent figures on the extreme left wing of British politics: Tony Benn and Bob Crow. Politicians of all persuasions have made the inevitable ...
In just under 200 days, Scottish voters will face a referendum on whether or not to leave the United Kingdom. The milestone was marked by ongoing arguments about whether an ...
Britannia, we proudly and rather wistfully proclaim, rules the waves. Over the last couple of weeks, however, it has seemed that the waves are ruling Britannia. Reading the UK ...
Has anybody apologized to Enoch Powell yet? The British establishment declared the Conservative MP a nonperson back in 1968 after he warned that unchecked Third World immigration ...
Just in time for Christmas, the latest British census shows that since 2001, when 72% of the UK's denizens claimed to be Christians, the quotient has dropped thirteen percentage ...
On New Year's Day 1964, a louche, longhaired Leeds lad presented the first edition of the BBC's Top of the Pops from inside a converted Manchester church. Featured acts included ...
After four days of royalist reverie, the imported Union Jacks are starting to sag"drooping disconsolately as the proud people who "never ever shall be slaves" shake ...
Being recently stuck for many hours in an exceedingly narrow space on a plane headed from London to DC, I was desperate enough to grab that garish British tabloid the Daily Mail ...
While British troops gallantly and pointlessly put themselves in peril's way in Afghanistan, Iraq, and soon perhaps elsewhere, they must find great comfort knowing that back in ...
It is sometimes said that football is like a religion to the English. As the legendary Liverpool manager Bill Shankly once half-joked, football is more important than life or ...
They are both Conservative politicians and both Etonians of the same vintage, yet they are almost permanently at odds. Would it not be better for the party to have ...
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